How We Arrested Kanu, DSS Tells Court

The Department of State Services (DSS) has narrated how it arrested the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

The directorate gave the account yesterday as the Federal Government opened its case against Kanu.

However, this was after the court had given permission for the witnesses to testify anonymously.

Trial Justice James Omotosho gave the approval, following an ex-parte application FG filed through its team of prosecutors, led by Adegboyega Awomolo.

He permitted the proposed witnesses to testify behind a screen with their real names replaced with acronyms.

FG’s lawyer, Awomolo, pleaded that the witnesses needed to be protected for security reasons and given the serious nature of the case.

However, while the witnesses would be shielded from the public, they would however be seen by the judge and the defendant.

This arrangement was complied with as the IPOB leader’s team of lawyers gave their consent.

The team was led by a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Kanu Agabi,

In his Evidence-in-Chief, the witness told the court that he led the team of security operatives that arrested the defendant on October 14, 2015, in one of the rooms in Golden Tulip Hotel, Lagos International Airport.

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The arrest was effected while Kanu was in the company of a lady, upon his return to the country from the United Kingdom.

According to the witness the DSS, acting on intelligence, deployed an eight-man team of operatives to the hotel where Kanu was arrested during a room-to-room search.

Kanu’s name was not on the manifest, so the team decided to do a room-to-room search, with the witness informing that it was after Kanu was arrested that it was discovered that he used his native name to book the accommodation.

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Embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has stated that his struggle for the emancipation of the South East region of the country did not amount to terrorism.

Instead, it is part of his fundamental human rights as a Nigerian.

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